Dr Tim Hayes

Tim combines his research expertise with 20 years' experience as a leader and manager within the NHS and university sectors, and his clinical background as a paramedic.

Tim specialises in healthcare leadership and management. His PhD explored the employee turnover of UK paramedics, focusing on their transition from NHS ambulance services to working clinically in the wider NHS. This built on his research undertaken in his MSc in Leadership and Management in Public Services exploring job satisfaction in paramedics.

Since his PhD, Tim has undertaken research and knowledge exchange projects for NHS England understanding Allied Health Profession recruitment and retention challenges in rural and coastal England and developing paramedic preceptorship. He is now funded by an NIHR grant undertaking research to positively impact the Allied Health Professional workforce in rural, coastal and deprived urban areas of England.

Tim combines his academic expertise with extensive practical leadership and management experience, having held leadership positions within UK Ambulance services Operations and Clinical directorates at junior, middle and senior management levels, and academic management experience as a Deputy Head of School.

Before joining ARU initially as a Senior Lecturer in Paramedic Science, Tim worked clinically as a paramedic mainly on ambulances and rapid response cars but also as a critical care helicopter paramedic. Tim now combines his expertise in paramedic science and academia as a Lead Visitor with the Health and Care Professions Council.

Tim has also worked for the College of Paramedics on their Education Advisory committee, where he helped develop their Paramedic Curriculum and Scope of Practice guidance.

• Allied health professional workforce
• Retention, turnover, motivation
• Organisational culture
• Professional identity
• Career development
• Grounded theory methodology

• Healthcare management
• Paramedic science

• PhD, Anglia Ruskin University
• MSc Leadership and Management in Public Services, University of Hertfordshire
• Postgraduate Certificate Advanced Healthcare Practice, University Campus Suffolk
• Postgraduate Certificate in Education, Anglia Ruskin University
• Diploma in Immediate Medical Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• Certificate in Higher Education Emergency Medical Care, University of East Anglia
• Registered Paramedic with the Health and Care Professions Council
• BSc (Hons) Law with History, Anglia Ruskin University

• Lead visitor, Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Reviewer, British Paramedic Journal
• Reviewer, British Journal of General Practice
• Paramedic Education Network, College of Paramedics
• Fellow, Higher Education Academy

• AHP WRAP Flex Fund, Exploring apprentice AHPs experience of transition between professional identities: challenges and solutions, £5,000, 2025
• National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), HSR&D AHP Workforce Partnership, £5.5million, 2024-2029. Funded 0.2fte Early Career Researcher
• NHS England, Review of Allied Health Professions (AHP) Rural and Coastal Workforce, £115,000, 2024. Funded 0.2fte Early Career Researcher
• Health Education England, Paramedic preceptorship foundation pathway, £3,297, 2022

Willis, S., Howe, L., Ramachandran, A., Nanyonjo, A., Grafton, K., Chandler, R., Hayes, T., Fowler Davis, S. (2026) ‘A qualitative investigation into the rural and coastal workforce for allied health professional leaders in England’, BMJ Leader.

Wishart, M., Peat, G.M., Bojke, C., Vargas-Palacios, A., Chandler, R., Hayes, T., Fowler-Davis, S., (2026) ‘Antecedents to Allied Health Professional (AHP) workforce planning and management in rural and coastal areas: a scoping review’. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare.

Willis, S., Howe, L., Ramachandran, A., Nanyonjo, A., Grafton, K., Chandler, R., Hayes, T., Fowler Davis, S., (2025). Review of Allied Health Professions (AHP) Rural and Coastal Workforce – final report to NHS England. Report commissioned and delivered to NHS England. July 2025.

Hayes, T. (2021) Key contributor to: College of Paramedics (2021) Scope of Practice: paramedics. College of Paramedics: Bridgewater.

Hayes, T. (2019) Key contributor to: College of Paramedics (2019) Paramedic Curriculum Guidance. 5th edition. College of Paramedics: Bridgwater.

Hayes, T. (2019) UK Contributor: Fuchs, S. and Klein, B.L. (2019) Paediatric Education for Prehospital Professionals. 3rd edition rev. Burlington: Jones & Barlett Learning.

Hayes, T. (2014) Key contributor to: Chrispin, P. and Morris, L. (2014) East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust Clinical Manual. 2nd edition. Somerset: Class Publishing.

Hayes, T. (2011) Chapter on Critical Care Paramedic in Hawkes-Frost, L. and Nicholls, T. (2011) Pain: an ambulance perspective, Somerset: Class Publishing.

Fowler Davis, S., Chandler, R., Hayes, T., Willis, S., (2025). Towards systems leadership for sustainable workforce planning and management in rural, coastal and deprived communities. Poster presented at: WHO Symposium: health workforce modelling for action, 28–30 April 2025. Copenhagen.

Hayes, T. (2022) Presentation on ‘Why UK paramedics are leaving ambulance services to work clinically elsewhere in the NHS’, Association of Ambulance Chief Executives Ambulance Leadership Forum. 6 September. Nuneaton.

Hayes, T. (2022) Presentation on ‘Why UK paramedics are leaving ambulance services to work clinically elsewhere in the NHS’, College of Paramedics National Conference. 26 May. Online.

Hayes, T., 2019. Why are paramedics leaving emergency ambulance services to work clinically in hospitals and GP practices.  Poster presented at: National research conference of the College of Paramedics. 24 September. Cardiff.

Hayes, T., 2019. Why are paramedics leaving ambulance work for primary care. Poster presented at: Thirteenth Annual Research Student Conference of Anglia Ruskin University, 11 July. Chelmsford.

Hayes, T. (2016) Presentation on ‘Healthcare Law and Ethics', Cambridge University Pre Hospital Care Society, Cambridge.

Hayes, T. (2012) Presentation on ‘Transportation of Vascular Emergencies’, Vascular Society of Great Britain Annual Scientific Symposium, Glasgow.